“Democracy doesn’t work unless people are well informed, and I don’t know that we are. People just don’t have the time. Most people’s daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don’t have time to really study crucial issues.”

We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home

I’ve always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven’t known life to be any happier.

The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].

I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

You can’t trap justice. It’s an idea, a belief.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

I don’t want to die without scars.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you’re figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it’s not worth doing – it’s already done. I’m interested in finding people who I think have a voice – and a very specific voice.

I don’t want to die without scars.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.

Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy and the fundamental right upon which all our civil liberties rest.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

No one’s going to take our democracy away from us. Not now. Not ever.